17 January 2012

Yesterday night and today, Bitola is under freez warning with the temperature plummeting -22 degrees.
Bitola has turned into a ghost town, with only a few indiduals brave enough to go outside mostly because they need to take care of daily chores. The rest are tucked in their homes.
For the first time, the Dragor river is frozen, all of it.
Several dozen families have no water because of bursting of their plumbing pipes. A great number of car batteries went bad, and drivers have not been able to start their cars.